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Book SynopsisFrance and the United States have long shared a special relationship, defined both by occasional puzzlement and endless fascination. François Busnel, one of France's most prominent literary critics, seeks to bridge this gap with America, his journal of literature and politics, launched in the wake of the 2016 election and now available to English readers for the first time.
In this collection of pieces from the magazine, Alain Mabanckou sketches the outlines of his Los Angeles, where he finds a sense of belonging far from his home country of the Republic of the Congo. Leïla Slimani considers the ways #MeToo is shaping a new discourse of consent on college campuses. Philippe Besson travels through the American heartland, driving from Chicago to New Orleans. Featuring interviews with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Louise Erdrich and original work in English by Richard Powers and Colum McCann, America celebrates the enduring relationship between France and the United States and offers a testament to the essential power of literature to unite in times of division.
Trade ReviewA kaleidoscopic reading list of a divided nation. * Columbia Journalism Review *
Lucid and humanist, a political literary magazine in which today's most prestigious writers witness, each in their own ways, a disillusioned country. * L’Expres *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Francois Busnel 1: Los Angeles by Alain Mabanckou 2: From Chicago to New Orleans by Philippe Besson 3: Orange Is the New Black by Richard Powers 4: The Outskirts of the City by Marie Darrieussecq 5: The Yellowstone Chronicles by Joël Dicker 6: Hitchhiking along the Border by Sylvain Prudhomme 7: Four Letters from America by Laura Kasischke 8: Chocolate-Colored Washington by Abdourahman Waberi 9: Trans-America by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich 10: A Hat in Manhattan by Francois Busnel 11: Miss Gulliver in America by Leïla Slimani 12: The Home(less) of the Free and the Brave by Lee Stringer 13: Will Evangelicals Save Trump? by Philippe Coste 14: Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Yann Perreau 15: We Must Fight for Our Memory, an interview with Louise Erdrich 16: Among the Amish by Philippe Claudel 17: Las Vegas by Alice Zeniter 18: A Call to Young Writers on the Eve of the Trump Presidency by Colum McCann
